“Amir’s road to redemption only comes about when he can forgive himself.”

There are many themes in The Kite Runner and one of those themes is redemption for Amir. This theme constantly runs through for both Amir and Baba I believe that Amir’s road to redemption starts when he goes to see Rahim khan when Rahim khan is dying and he tells Amir that there is a way to be good again. That is when Amir Relises that he can be redeemed for what he has done to Hassan in the past.

The definition of redemption is paying for something that you have done wrong in the past so therefore Amir’s road to redemption can not start when he forgives himself it has to start before then for it to be a road because the definition of a road is a way of means to achieve something so it can not be a road to redemption if he has already achieved his redemption. His road to redemption only can start when he finds out what he can do to achieve his redemption and then he is on the road that leads him to that redemption. That point is when Amir returns to Afghanistan to go to the death bed of Rahim Khan and he tells Amir that he needs to take Hassan back with him to America. So now Amir knows what he has to do to achieve his redemption and he sets out to achieve it.

The first time that Amir really feels that he is on the road to redemption is when he allows Assef to beat him up because in the book he starts to laugh and mocks Assef. This shows that he being beaten up is his way of paying for what he did to Hassan and also how he left Hassan to be raped by Assef when he just watched and then ran away when they were boys.

When Amir brakes his promise to Sorab he tryed to cut his wrists in a suiside attempt and Amir is horrified at what Sorab has done that and he tells Sorab that when the ambulance carried him away he was still screaming. This tells us that the key to Amir’s redemption lies with Sorab Surviving and making it out of...

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...Amir’s Road to Redemption
Everybody must face their own battles and regrets. These regrets may haunt theperson all their life. However, there are ways for one to redeem oneself in order to no longer feel regret. This relates to the book The Kite Runner written by Khaled Hosseini. The main character Amir is set on his path to redeem his honour and pride. On this path Amir gets beat up to redeem his faults toward his brother, Hassan.Amir finally redeems himself once he gets his depressed nephew, Sohrab, to smile. Amir has truly redeemed his honour and pride on his path to redemption, sacrifices himself by getting beat up, and making Sohrab smile.
Amir has been set on his journey by Rahim Khan, his father’s best friend, to redeem his honour and pride. The way to regain his pride he must redeem himself for abandoning Hassan leaving him to get raped. The way to retain his honour is to get Hassan’s son, Sohrab to safety. Amir realises he must go on this journey:
Made me see how my entire life, long before the winter of 1975, dating back to that singing Hazara woman was still nursing me, had been a cycle of lies, betrayals, and
secrets. There is a way to be good again, he’d said. A way to end the cycle. With a little boy. An orphan. Hassan’s son. Somewhere in Kabul. (Hoessini 239)
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...﻿“There is no God and we are his prophets”:
Deconstructing Redemption in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.
(paper under review: not for quotation)
Stefan Skrimshire
The University of Manchester
stefan.skrimshire@manchester.ac.uk
09/09/09
Abstract
Despite its overwhelmingly positive reception, the apparently redemptive conclusion to Cormac McCarthy’s The Road attracted criticism from some reviewers. They read in it an inconsistency with the nihilism that otherwise pervades the novel, as well as McCarthy’s other works. But what are they referring to when they interpret ‘redemption’, the ‘messianic’ and ‘God’ in McCarthy’s novel? Some introductory thoughts from apocalypse theory and deconstruction reveal a more nuanced approach that not only ‘saves’ McCarthy from the charge of such critics. It also opens up more interesting avenues for exploring the theme of redemption and the messianic in contemporary disaster fiction.
Introduction
Justifiably effusive praise was heaped, by the literary community, upon McCarthy’s multiple award-winner The Road (2006). But perhaps the most interesting reaction came in the form of critique of the allegedly “redemptive” and “messianic” tone of its conclusion. Michael Chabon’s celebrated review of the book argued that McCarthy appeared to insert such a tone “almost…in spite of himself”,1 that is, out of character with his usual nihilism. Another...

...Why do you think McCarthy has chosen not to give his characters names? How do the generic labels of “the man” and “the boy” affect the way you /readers relate to them?
While reading The Road, a novel written by Cormac McCarthy, I was jerked from the warmth, comfort, and safety of my home and thrown into a cold, dark, and desolate world, walking alongside “the man” and “the boy”. McCarthy composes his work so graphically that readers are drawn right into the story. I believe Cormac McCarthy wanted the figures in this book to be universal, so that the reader could imagine him/her self as “the boy” or “the man” at any given moment, and to be able to feel as they do. To do this McCarthy did not designate the characters in his book with names, and because of this, I was able to connect with “the man” and “the boy” on a personal level and envision myself uniting with them in their chilling journey.
As the reader, I was deeply overwhelmed with many mixed emotions such as compassion, sadness, happiness, disgust, remorse, and fear. I have pity for the characters in the book The Road, because “the man” and “the boy” have to pass day to day struggling to survive in a frigid bleak world where food is scarce “They squatted in the road and ate rice and cold beans they’d cooked days ago.” “Already beginning to ferment.”(McCarthy 29). The landscape is blackened, and mankind is almost extinct “The mummied dead everywhere.”(McCarthy...

...opportunities to reflect on their own world
To what extent do you agree with this view?
The Road written by Cormac McCarthy is a post-apocalyptic novel about a man and a boy travelling down across what seems to be a bleak and dull land. In this book, we see a world that seems to have a bleak and dark future without a lot of hope. Land is somehow destroyed, perhaps by a natural cause. The cycle of seasons has been completely altered and there is a lack of civilisation. Although the book is constantly depressing and dark, there are moments that we have some glimpse of hope, and moments where there are some humanity portrayed. This is usually shown by one of the main characters, the boy. Through this novel, we are able to look at a world that is almost completely ruined and allows us to reflect on that. McCarthy is shows us through vivid description that if we continue to play around with nature, such as polluting our current world, one of the possible conclusions could result to being in a world such as the one we see in The Road. Therefore I agree to a large extent that the book provides us readers and opportunity to reflect on our own world.
McCarthy’s use of language provides us a vivid image in our minds to the post apocalyptic world that the book is set in. We are seen through a number of ways such as through descriptions of reality, morality, immorality and violence to show us the world The Road is set. “People sitting...